Zerek
Last seen for boys in 2023 at #9,763
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 11 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 265since 1988
Zerek over time
Rank among boys' names. Zerek has never cracked the top 5,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #6,307 | 13 |
| 2013 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #5,767 | 15 |
| 2007 | #5,434 | 16 |
| 2006 | #6,094 | 13 |
| 2005 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #6,522 | 10 |
| 2001 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #5,588 | 12 |
| 1999 | #7,874 | 7 |
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| 1996 | #5,187 | 11 |
| 1995 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #8,700 | 5 |
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| 1989 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #7,270 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zerek! It came in at #7,270, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1988–1993, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Zerek
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 1996 at #5,187 (11 births)
- Births halved by 1997, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 126,463 boys born in 2012 were named Zerek (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,368 boys born in 2023 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #5,187 in 1996, was only 1 in 172,209 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.8% of all boys named Zerek (108) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 10 | #7,270 (1988) | #7,588 |
| 1990s | 37 | #5,187 (1996) | #7,299 |
| 2000s | 108 | #5,434 (2007) | #6,933 |
| 2010s | 79 | #5,720 (2012) | #8,813 |
| 2020s | 31 | #7,034 (2020) | #9,344 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Zerek in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
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1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 172,209 of them was named Zerek, which outranked 50.8% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,878Zakariya12
- #4,878Zebediah12
- #4,878Zohaib12
- #5,187Zerek11
- #5,187Abdon11
- #5,187Abubakar11
- #5,187Adarsh11
- #5,535Aaronmichael10
- #5,535Acie10
- #5,535Afton10
Tied with 347 names at #5,187; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.